Your ego is your self-image created by thought. It's your social mask requiring validation because it lives in fear of losing its sense of identity.

Thibaut

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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Soren Kierkegaard

People will always have their opinion on you despite who you are and what your capable of.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It's very freeing when you realize you don't have to prove anything. Some of the people you're trying to outperform, they're not even watching.

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